Just like with its mid-range phones, Sony appears to have handed the keys over to a third-party manufacturer. Reportedly, we got our first taste of this with the recently released Xperia 1 VII.

On a Japanese support page, Sony announces that it has suspended shipments of the Xperia 1 VII, and paused sales in its own stores (via Reddit user Hashabasha). According to a machine translation ...

Sony's latest flagship, the Xperia 1 VII, packs top-tier hardware, but it's not coming to India — and maybe not even the US. Unfortunately, most of us can't buy it.

Sony is shifting the production of its high-end smartphones to third-party manufacturers, starting with the Xperia 1 VII 5G. While Sony won’t build the phones itself anymore, it’s keeping ...

The Sony Xperia 1 VII resembles its predecessor quite a bit. It’s still a boxy phone with slightly thicker top and bottom bezels, so that a display camera hole is not necessary. It still have ...